#may be slightly biased bc I was spoiled for it so I never had that emotional shock to it but I feel like I’m the only person in the fandom

[villainanders]

unpopular opinion but I think all that remains is one of the most clumsily written quests in the game

[laughing-with-god]

Tribute Catalog for Quarter Quell

(This is just for me to help get faces in mind while I write part two of Quarter Quell. Trying something new for inspiration but feel free to reference if u also would like a better picture.  I was watching the casting interviews for the Hunger Games movie and it made me realize how important it is for me to visualize the kids I’m going to write about in the arena.)

District One; Luxury

(I chose Twice’s Jeongyeon and Exo’s Chanyeol because they fit the physical discription I had in mind. They both are tall, charming, self-assured and very athletically built. Coming from district one, they are very spoiled compared to other tributes given they are the wealthiest and have a good relationship with the capitol. So I wanted to pick tributes that can excude a sense of luxury and physical superiority. They both never had to suffer from food outages and have trained to not only physically succeed in the games but to also win over audiences with appealing personas. They both are very charismatic and won fans over during their interviews bc they know how it important it is to have fans to root for you during the games. It could be the difference between life and death and game makers keep track of that. Chanyeol is 18 and Jeongyeon is 17.)

District Two; Masonry, Weapon-Making (Careers)

(Joy and Jungkook also come from a wealthy and strong district so it was important to me to pick tributes that looked healthy. Both Joy and Jungkook are kinda tall and aren’t necessarily frail looking....like you can tell that they eat well and are fit. It was also important to me that they were light skinned because their district chore of masonry requires lots of indoor time and I don’t picture district two as a sunny place. It’s actually quite cold and everyone’s work requires them to be inside so I wanted their complexions to reflect that. District two is actually responsible for making the weapons the capitol uses in the games, so lots of kids from 2 know their way around most weapons. This is true with Jungkook and Joy. They also are trained with combat and basic survival skills and unlike 1, they depend more on killing others than winning over audiences. They still are not to be underestimated. Jungkook trained more than Joy but she is knowledgeable enough to be a threat. Joy is 16 and Jungkook is 18.)

District Three; Technology

(I wanted to pick tributes that can reflect the cleverness of district three but also express how unfair this game could be. Both Chenle and Sungyeon are very sweet looking and very young so it’s extra tough to see kids as innocent as them have to fend off the more blood thirsty tributes. They both are very smart but didn’t score very highly during the personal assessment because the game makers are more biased towards physical skill than smarts. Sungyeon was talkative and polite during her interview but Chenle was very nervous and had stage fright so he couldn’t answer the questions as well. Audiences find them cute but don’t take them seriously. Sungyeon is 14 and Chenle is 13.)

District Four; Fishing (Careers?)

(Exo’s Jongin and Hyorin. It was important to me that I picked tributes that were darker skinned or at least had some sort of tan. District Four’s chore of fishing along with the weather and location means that Kai and Hyorin have lots of melanin and exposure to the sun. The reason that ‘careers’ is followed by a ‘?’ is because 4 is 50/50. Two and one almost always ally up but 4 isn’t always garunteed into the career pact. But, I think they would be good career candidates for this game because both Kai and Hyorin are well built and popular. The female audience adores Kai and the male audience loves Hyorin. They scored decently in the personal assessments and both had playful/flirty attitudes during the interviews. Although Kai is the more reserved of the two. Growing up in four, they also have some better survival skills than most tributes especially if the arena is water based or tropic bc that’s closest to their home habitat. Hyorin is 17 while Kai is 16.)

District Five; Electric, Solar and Nuclear Power

(Nct Renjun and Girl’s Generation Taeyeon. I picked Renjun because I wanted some younger looking tributes and I picked Taeyeon because I admired Foxface from the original Hunger Games book and wanted to pick someone who can be like her. Side note; foxface was also from district five btw. Both Renjun and Taeyeon are kinda pale and frail looking bc lots of District five is underground and unfortunately they’re not the capitols’ favorites so food outages aren’t uncommon. Both scored rather poorly on the personal assessments and were very quiet during the interviews. It’s suspected that they’re smart because most people from District Five are but if they are then they’re playing that very close to the chest. Taeyeon is 16 while Renjun is 12.). 

District Six; Transportation

(Exo’s Sehun and Red Velvet’s irene.  y’all know my sehun biased ass was gonna drop him in here somewhere.  Sadly, I don’t know much about district six other than the people aren’t fond of traveling and the district has a problem with its’ citizens being addicted to morphling.  However, taehyung mentioned to look out for the guy from 6 because he was one of the few who can hold his own in the wrestling station.  It is also suspected that district six may have an alliance with each other because Sehun and irene stuck together during all the training days and conversed with each other often.  Sehun scored well on the personal test while irene did poorly, most likely due to her petite figure and lack of strength.  Their interviews were bland bc both of them are very quiet but they do have a decent fanbase due to their good looks.  Sehun and Irene are both 16.)

District Seven; Lumber

(Got7′s Yugyeom and blackpink’s Jennie.  I picked Yugyeom because he’s very tall and broad which makes sense because their district is known for lumber so I picture him cutting down trees often.  Jennie is also someone who shouldn’t be underestimated, she is mentioned in Quarter Quell for being ‘athletic, agile, well-fed and flew through the rope course as if it was a walk in the park.’   Both scored decently but Jennie scored a point higher than him.  Their interviews revealed him to be the more lively of the two while she was very reserved and had a general attitude of not wanting to be there.  Yuqyeom is 15 while Jennie is 18.)

District 8; Textiles

(Jackson Wang and Amber Liu.  Not much is known about them.  Like 6, they also keep to themselves and may have an alliance with each other.  They both had average scores for their personal assessments but Taehyung mentioned in Quarter Quell that he suspects the boy from 8 being a potential threat but laying low.  Their interviews were surprisingly funny and the host Declan even joked that there must be something in district 8‘s water that make them so entertaining.  Jackson is 17 and Amber is 15.)

District 9; Grain

(District 9 is in charge of grain and is described as having fields upon fields of wheat.  For this reason, I wanted to pick tributes who are a bit darker for the purpose of expressing how long they may have spent outside working the fields.  I know Tzuyu isn’t that dark but in my fic I picture her tanner.  They both aren’t very talkative or aggressive during the training and scored low during their assessment tests.  I also picture them on the more skinny side because 9 gets food shortages often.  Tzuyu is 15 and Woojin is 16.)

District 11; Agriculture

(Bambam and Lisa.  I also may or may not think they’re cute and look good together but that’s neither here nor there.  They both are rather thin which is important because 11 is one of the least liked districts from the capitol so they don’t get as much food as others.  They also have some color to them which is important because their chore is required to be outside farming.  Both Bambam and Lisa scored okay during their tests and have decent interviews, they seem rather nice and passive and it’s suspected that they might be allied with each other.  Their strategy might be to hide until the games are over because they aren’t very blessed physically, haven’t spoken to other tributes and were seen most often at the camouflage station.  Lisa is 16 and Bambam is 17.)

District 12; Mining

(Chaeyeong and Johnny Seo.  District 12 never wins the games so they are kinda the ones with the least amount of hope.  Both of them are also very thin and pale due to the mining industry of being underground and having very little food.  She scored poorly but Johnny did slightly better than Chaeyeong.  Johnny is one of the most promising tributes 12 has had in a while because he is somewhat strong and has good survival skills from living in the seam of the district.  But still, he isn’t as trained and ruthless as the careers so it would be an uphill battle for him.  Their interviews were short and uneventful, Chaeyeong was too nervous to really shine while Johnny was a bit blunt and rude because of his hatred for the capitol people and their sick sense of entertainment.  He is 16 and she is 14.)

[the--ghost--king]

Spider-Man:Far From Home

Hey so I just saw Spider-Man: Far From Home. And I got like mildly spoiled beforehand about the end credit scene but that didn't take away from the story at all so time to dive the fuck into my ramble anger.

The movie is phenomenal. I was shacking and anticipating and on the edge of my seat the whole time but that doesn't mean that I don't have things that bothered me about it.

First, let's talk about Tony Stark and how his death has impacted Peter. Peter is unsure and doesn't really know what to do with himself at the start of the film which is completely understandable. He's still mourning, Peter doesn't feel ready (the scene with the reporters shows this expertly when you contrast Peter handling the Press and Tony handling the Press) which is completely understandable. He's 16, he's just come back to life and everything is strange and confusing. He's vulnerable as Hell this whole movie and a fuckton of people abused this vulnerability.

First of all, I'm just gonna start about Nick Fury and the second after credit scene. Talos was Fury all along which makes sense with how to an extent Fury didn't act like himself and missed certain things etc but that doesn't excuse the manipulative behaviour he exhibited towards Peter. Maybe it's just me but I was quite angry with how Fury kept pushing Peter towards taking the mantel of 'New Iron Man'. I get that He (Talos) was probably working with some loose orders and figured this was the best course of action because Tony left Peter the glasses but the way he went about it is all wrong. We don't expect Nick Fury to be a nurturing presence or anything but making Peter feel like he's failing the world and more importantly letting Tony down by not taking on the 'Iron Man' Mantle is fundamentally wrong in my opinion.

You can't tell an emotionally vulnerable teenager that his mentor figure, who has just died, would be inexplicably disappointed in him if he didn't do something he (the teen) is afraid of/ doesn't feel ready for/ doesn't want to do yet. It's upsetting that Tony's legacy and his death was used as a manipulation tactic like this. That it's Talos and not actual Nick Fury excuses some of his actions, Talos is maybe less aware of earth costums or is maybe playing up the 'Hard-Ass Nick Fury' idea but that's also kind of unbelievable because we know that Talos is rather empathetic by nature because of his family. He has it in him to be cruel but wouldn't do so unnecessarily and lovely reminder: Peter is a child. He might be a superhero but he is still a child and they should have taken a different approach towards getting Peter to rethink being involved in all this. Because the way Talos(Fury) just made Peter be involved by changing all these aspects of his trip that he can't control must feel very violating to Peter as well. He seemingly has no control over his life at all and it's fucking awful.

Now that we've got that out of the way it's time to fucking talk about our favourite motherfucker Aldrich Killain Quentin Beck. (I'll talk about Iron Man 3 and General Iron Man parallels in a bit) either way Quentin Beck aka Tony Stark inconvenienced me that one time and now I'm willing to Kill Children -Man number 700. Is this just going to be a thing in Spider-Man movies, all villains are going to say it's Tony Stark's fault they're doing what they're doing whilst they're fully functioning adults with autonomy(??????) (Is it obvious that I am Mad). Either way.

Quentin Beck is mad because Tony used his holographics technology and called it BARF. Sounds like a fair thing to be mad about when Tony seemingly didn't give him any credit for it. I use seemingly here because we don't have the full story. We just know what Quentin told us which is that Tony did something that upset him and Quentin figured the best course of action was to become the next Big Superhero and kill a bunch of people in the name of his goals. ( *cough* Killian *cough*). Also William from Iron Man 1 working with him is a fun little Easter egg but it also makes no sense that he'd somehow hate Tony because Obadiah yelled at him. Like what's the thought process there? Do we actually justify this? Doesn't Marvel know how to give people proper motivations for their actions? Maybe I'm just salty (and like I'm biased because I love Tony Stark) but still. Beck called him a drunken manchild (which a lot of Tony antis do) and then disregards all the good Tony has ever done for the world and how he's been growing and changing and trying to do better since IM1 and how that culminated in his death in Endgame to instead focus on the things he did before he decided to turn himself around (like a lot of Tony antis do).

Mysterio's entire motivation is based on him misinterpreting Tony's character. Tony did one thing that was detrimental to Mysterio and then Mysterio made a huge leap and just said, 'Y'know how I can best get my revenge over this tiny little thing that most people would either go to court over or go to the press with to gain public trust/opinion to ruin their opponents reputation? Making myself an elaborate superhero and not caring about casualties because they're for the greater good.'

Basically I'm done with people making Tony responsible for their actions when they made these radical choices completely on their own without him ever doing anything but upsetting them in one way or another.

I'm not saying that Tony didn't do anything wrong in this scenario (if we were told the whole truth and Tony stole someone else's idea for no good reason, which, knowing him, sounds fake) but I am definitely saying that Beck could have done literally anything else to get back at Tony especially if he had like 5+ years to think of his evil revenge plan.

So next up is first me being slightly mad about the Spidey-sense being called the 'Peter-tingle' and how it's really not explained how it works in the movie (maybe it was but I just missed it) either way, it was very funny but also mildly upsetting.

And then the last thing I'll complain about is the mid-credit scene. I'll talk about the whole Peter/MJ romance subplot later but I want to specifically concentrate on the identity reveal. I'd been spoiled for this but only a little. I knew they would paint Peter as the bad guy and they set the whole identity reveal with The Daily Bugle (well done on that) up by showing us William grabbing the USB-stick and this being done makes a lot of sense with Mysterio's character bc he was a conniving bastard who'd obviously have contingancy plans. I'm not mad about how the reveal was done or that it happened necessarily. Overall the scene was handled very well and was very impactful. I'm just kinda upset because Peter just gets thrown into this new thing and never gets a break and I'm upset about what they want to do with this information now.

Side note: they also foreshadowed the identity reveal when Peter was talking to May and Happy by making it look like he was maybe talking to a camera or something (clever shot Marvel).

But now my issue with the world knowing Peter's identity: It's going to Fuck his life over immensely, especially because the world thinks he's evil. The Next Spider-Man film (and I'm pretty sure the last one) is going to come out in 2022 and I'm pretty sure they're not going to mention how the Spider Man conflict is handled in other movies. Which means they'll have to fix that up in the next Spider-Man movie somehow.

In the comics some peope of the New York public disliked the Neighbourhood menace Spider-Man because of J.J Jameson and The Daily Bugle and how they talked about him being distrustful but the world didn't know who Spider-Man was, so Peter could live his life normally without Spider-Man debilitating him. In this timeline (fucking earth 616 Marvel who are you kidding, also does this mean that that was actually a lie because motherfucking Mysterio made his story up???) The world Knows that Peter is Spider-Man and he has no one to protect him, he's on his own, completely and he's not ready.

That's a huge thing in the film. Peter isn't ready but everything around him seems to push him to be without regarding what he wants at all and then the reveal happens. Idk if this made complete sense but the lack of agency Peter gets over his life especially with Beck pulling this shit is astounding and Marvel will have to somehow fix this by the next Spider-Man film and sell that convincingly and I don't like their prospects at all.

So now we're going to talk about things I liked about this movie:

The MJ/Peter romance. It was great and made a lot of sense. The way that MJ had issues with being vulnerable. Peter "Hopeless Romantic" Parker. How Peter just really wanted to get the girl and have something nice for himself after all the bad shit that happened. Their romance made sense and although I don't like love triangles the whole Brad thing was pretty funny and did have us on the edge of our seat sometimes. The romance was a subplot but it was a part of the story in a way that seemed very organic and it added to Peter's story and character without taking away from the bigger story.

Next thing up: a loose list of Iron Man 3/ Tony Stark parallels. (Which made me a very happy lad)

Tony lost his suit in IM3 and has to work around this, Peter loses his suit and then also has to work around this (although he gets help ig). (Very thin I know)

The villain being a deception somehow. Aldrich Killian being the manderin and Mysterio being the bad guy.

The way Peter just started rambling about the multiverse and science the moment he heard about it.

Peter ghosting Nick Fury

How Peter made his suit on the plane and configured a bunch of things and used the holograms so organically. (did you see how Happy looked at him it was so obvious that he was fondly thinking 'wow he's just like Tony')

Other things:

Peter swinging a vaguely hammer-like object whilst also holding a vaguely shield-like object

Peter holding a vaguely shield like object in another battle scene

The entire May/ Happy romance

NED AND BETTY

Brad (Also the Peter is half naked with this random lady scene had Issues but I've been mad about this movie over enough shit already and someone else has already talked about it for sure)

Their teachers

Flash loving Spider-Man and still bullying Peter.

Flash being a vlogger

The fact that they called it 'The Blip' sounds a little dumb but it grew on me.

Also the acting in this movie was phenomenal. Mad respect to Jacob, Zendaya, Jake, Samuel and Tom they captured the characters really well and every scene was good.

I loved all of the super unsettling and upsetting illusions Beck showed Peter (fucking Tony's grave and that goddamn skeleton of decay Iron Man crawling out of it was Art)

Also the second end credit scene with Nick Fury in space was funny. Nick deserves a break.

It might have seemed like I was shitting on the movie a lot but I honest to God loved it. It's just that me, this boy, is a whiny little bitch and nitpicking is one of my favourite hobbies.